D ^3^ 



B't ^"^ 



Hollinger Corp. 
pH8.5 



Zi.«^ 




9, 





Copyright, 1918, by 

The Alumni Federation of Columbia University 

of New York 



Photographs taken by 

U. S. Signal Corps School op Photography 

AT Columbia University 



DEC 11 19(8 

(g:i,A50T828 



-)'^ 

(o-^ 



'^ " ^ / such a call to arms 

^ Columbia replies, 
'Here am / ' " 




».lp^- i t 



COLUMBIA'S WAR WORK 

Seventy-two Columbia Professors in War 

Work 

COLUMBIA, the world's largest university, has sent forth 
seventy-two of its leading teachers to aid the cause of 
democracy. Every school of the University is repre- 
sented. 

This is additional to the fact that practically every remain- 
ing professor is devoting his time to training the S. A. T. C. 
at Columbia. 

The greatest contribution in the number of faculty officers 
has been made by the medical school. Twenty-four professors 
of this school — six from the department of clinical medicine 
and eight from the department of clinical surgery — have tem- 
porarily left their professorial chair to ally themselves with the 
United States forces in this country or overseas. 

The department of Chemistry has given five professors. 
Professor Marston T. Bogert, of the Department of Chemistry, 
is now lieutenant colonel in the Gas Service Corps and is with 
the Southeastern Department of the army near the Lorraine 
frontier. 

Electrical Engineering has granted leave of absence for 
war service to four of the faculty. 

The School of Mechanical Engineering is continuing its 
courses with five professors lecturing in the U. S. Navy Gas 
Engine School and Assistant Professor Lincoln D. Moss, 
Navigation Officer at Pelham Bay Station. 

Henry R . Seager , Professor in the Department of Economics , 
is Secretary of the Labor Control Board of the United States 
Shipping Board. 

John Erskine, Professor of English, who has recently 
arrived in this country to aid a special personnel committee 
in the selection of looo college professors and instructors 
to give courses in the "Khaki University" overseas, is 
directing the Educational Department of the Y. M. C. A. 
in France. 



COLUMBIA'S WAR WORK 



Jefferson B. Fletcher, Professor of Comparative Literature, 
is a first lieutenant with the U. S. Army Ambulance Service 
in France. 

John W. Cunliffe, Associate Director of the School of 
Journalism, is in charge of the London branch of the American 
University Union in Europe. 

Carlton J. H. Hayes, Professor of History, is engaged in 
research work for the U. S. Government. 

William Campbell, Professor of Metallurgy, is Metallurgist 
in the New York Navy Yard and Metallographer for the 
United States Bureau of Mines. 

John J. Coss, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, is a member 
of the Committee on the Classification of the Personnel of the 
Army. 

Harry L. Hollingsworth, Professor of Psychology at Barnard 
College, is taking part in the work of the Psychopathic Service 
at Bellevue Hospital, and Albert T. Poffenberger, Instructor 
in the same department, who was formerly lecturer to military 
psycheatriats on the use of mental tests, is now psychological 
examiner to determine the fitness of soldiers at Camp Wheeler, 
Georgia. 

Professor Edward T. Devine has temporarily left the De- 
partment of Social Science to be chief of the Refugee and Home 
Relief Bureau in France. He is in charge of all relief work 
outside of Paris and is providing for more than 850,000 refugees 
from the war zone. Herbert N. Shenton, of the same depart- 
ment, has written two pamphlets on war topics: "A Message 
for Labor Sunday in Time of War," and "Industrial Standards 
in Time of War." He is a correspondent in the Department 
of Military Intelligence of the U. S. War College, and spends 
much of his time in lecturing on war subjects and speaking for 
liberty loans. 

Hans Zinsser, Professor of Bacteriology in the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, has left the Surgeon General's office 
at Washington, D. C, to take up his work in France. 

Alwin M. Pappenheimer, Assistant Professor of Pathology, 
is a captain in a Base Hospital in London. 



COLUMBIA'S WAR WORK 

Horatio B. Williams, Assistant Professor of Physiology, is 
a captain in the Signal Corps Engineers, U. S. R. 

Louis Casamajor, Associate Professor of Neurology, is a 
captain at a base hospital in London. 

Frederic S. Lee, Dalton Professor of Physiology, is a member 
of the Physiology Committee of the Council of National 
Defense, which looks after cases of industrial fatigue. Pro- 
fessor Lee is consulting physiologist to the U. S. Public 
Health Service and is a member of the Pennsylvania Com- 
mittee on Standards for Loading Projectiles. 

Warfield T. Longcope is a major in the M. R. C, U. S. A. 

James A. Miller, Professor of Clinical Medicine, is Director 
of the Committee for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in France. 
He is associated in this work with Dr. Livingstone Farrand. 

C. H. B. Camac, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, 
is captain in the M. O. R. C. 

The following professors in the Department of Clinical 
Surgery are majors in the M. O. R. C: John B. Walker, 
Ellsworth Eliot, Charles H. Beck, Charles F. Dowd, Eugene 
H. Pool, H. R. R. Lyle. Alexis V. Moschcowitz is a first 
lieutenant. Lewis F. Frissell is with the Tuberculosis Com- 
mission and David Bovaird, Jr., is major in the Base Hospital 
at Camp Dix, N. J. Both are assistant professors of Clinical 
Medicine. 

Nathan E. Brill, Professor of Clinical Medicine, is major and 
director of Base Hospital No. 3. 

Robert T. Frank, Associate in Cancer Research, and Joseph 
S. Wheelwright, Associate in Physiology, are captains in the 
Medical Reserve Corps. 

Ernest L. Scott, Associate in Physiology, is scientific assist- 
ant of the U. S. Public Health Service in the investigation of 
industrial fatigue in munition factories. 

Dino Bigongiari, Assistant Professor in the Romance 
Languages Department, is a lieutenant in the Italian Naval 
Observation Corps at Venice. Henri F. Muller of the same 
department is sergeant in the Engineering Corps of the French 
Army and an instructor for the American Army in France. 



COLUMBIA'S WAR WORK 

Arthur MacMahon, of the Department of Politics, is a 
member of the staff of the Council of National Defense. The 
section to which he is attached handles relations between the 
National Defense and the State Council of Defense. 

Clarence A. Manning, lecturer in the Slavonic Language 
School, is in the Ninth Company Artillery Corps, N. Y. N. G. 

James N. Kendall is lieutenant in the Gas Service, Washing- 
ton, D. C, and Samuel A. Tucker is in the Raw Material 
Division of the Council of National Defense. Both are from 
the Department of Chemistry. 

James S. MacGregor, of the Civil Engineering School, is 
Aeronautical Engineer with the Aircraft Production Board at 
Washington, D. C. 

Morton Arendt, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineer- 
ing, is lieutenant, senior grade, on the Admiral's staff at the 
Submarine Base and School, New London, Conn. Frederick 
W. Mohre, of the same department, is a lieutenant in the 
U. S. N. R. F. 

Frank L. Mason is a junior grade lieutenant in the U. S. 
Navy Gas Engine School at Columbia University. 

Dean S. Fansler, Assistant Professor of English, is active 
in Y. M. C. A. work in France. 

Hal T. Beans, Associate Professor of Chemistry is with 
the Air Production Board at Washington, D. C, and Assistant 
Professor J. E. Zanetti, of the same department, is a major 
in the Ordnance Department in France. 

Arthur W. Thomas, of the Chemistry Department, is a 
first lieutenant in the Medical Corps and is engaged in making 
food surveys of some of the cantonments. 

Charles E. Lucke, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, is 
Lieutenant Commander, and at the head of the U. S. Navy 
Gas Engine School at Columbia University. Assistant Pro- 
fessors Harry L. Parr, Charles W. Thomas, and Charles 
C. Sleffel are instructors in the same school. All three are 
lieutenants. Professor Sleffel is a senior officer. 

Edward D. Thurston, Jr., Assistant Professor of Mechanical 



The School of Journalism Building is used 
as Headquarters of the S. Jl . T. C. 





COLUMBIA'S WAR WORK 

Engineering was formerly an assistant inspector of motor boat 
construction, and is now a lieutenant and instructor in the 
U. S. Navy Gas Engine School. 

Edward J. Kennedy, of the Department of Physical Educa- 
tion, is in the U. S. Naval Auxiliary Reserve at Pelham Bay 
Park. 

Albert P. Wills, Professor of Physics, is on the New York 
Committee of National Research Council and is engaged in 
submarine defense investigations; Assistant Professor Harold 
W. Webb, of the same department, is with the Signal Corps of 
the American Expeditionary Forces and is a member of the 
National Research Council Subcommittee on Wireless. 

William Darrach, Professor of Clinical Surgery, is major in 
Base Hospital Unit No. 2, London. 

Rupert Taylor, instructor in English in the Extension 
Teaching Department, is Statistical Secretary at Camp Pike, 
Arkansas. 

James L. Dohr, instructor in accounting, is second lieu- 
tenant in the Chemical Section, Material Department, 
Aircraft Production Board. 

Roy S. MacElwee, lecturer on Foreign Trade, is Federal 
Agent for Commercial Education, Federal Board for Voca- 
tional Education, Washington, D.C. 

John R. Crawford, Assistant Professor in Classical Philology 
and Librarian of the Avery Art Collection, is adjutant, 
assisting Capt. Hedder Williams. 

T. Leslie Shear of the Classical Philology Department, is 
first lieutenant with the Signal Corps, Aviation Section, 
Washington, D. C. 

Others of the Columbia University faculty in service are: 
Wesley C. Mitchell, Professor of Economics; J. Harold 
Morecroft, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; 
Roberts B. Owen, and Herbert W. Schneider, Instructors in 
Philosophy; Roger Howson, Assistant Librarian; Royal S. 
Haynes, Associate in Diseases of Children; Robert H. Mont- 
gomery. Assistant Professor of Accounting; Ralph H. Blan- 
chard, Instructor in Insurance, and Joseph F. Ritt; lecturer 
in Mathematics. 




upper picture shows the first assejnbly of the S. A.T . C. 
when they took the oath of allegience. Lower picture 
shows S^ J. T. C. body in uniform. 




COLUMBIA'S WAR WORK 

The Students* Army Training Corps at 
Columbia University 

THE Students' Army Training Corps at Columbia Univer- 
sity is the result of a call from the War Department for 
a mobilization of all the resources of the Nation's colleges 
and universities. 

When this call was received the task of turning over this 
university to a war basis seemed an impossible one. Columbia 
had already been doing an enormous amount of war work 
training which began almost immediately after war was 
declared. Its several miscellaneous schools had already turned 
out many men to do highly technical and urgently necessary 
war work. Therefore Columbia knew what a task it was to 
go into war work on a full basis. The administration realized 
that it was not enough to just turn the facilities of the college 
over to the military authorities. The college must be put where 
it would function even better than the War Department re- 
quired if Columbia was to hold its rightful place in the world 
of education. 

The task has been accomplished, and as an evidence of how 
well it has been accomplished, the course of studies worked out 
by President Butler and the members of the Columbia faculty 
have been adopted as the one to be used in all other colleges 
that are now under the direction of the War Department. 

The Students' Army Training Corps at Columbia University 
is now actually engaged in turning out officers for the United 
States Army. 

On October ist, 1918, the entire student body, numbering 
2500 men, took the oath of allegiance to the flag amid stirring 
scenes on the Mall in front of the Library. 

These men in the S. A. T. C. are now soldiers of the United 
States. They rank as privates and receive a private's pay. 
They wear the uniform of the Army and in all respects are 
under Army discipline. 

Major Herbert C. Earnshaw, who has seen service with 
General Pershing, is in command of the Columbia University 
Post of the War Department. More than sixty officers have 
been detailed to assist Major Earnshaw in his work of making 
Army officers from this S. A. T. C. 



,-7^11 j 






i i ! 






111 

£ S S 
<^- . 




COLUMBIA'S WAR WORK 

Hartley and Livingston halls have been taken over as 
barracks and the Commons is used as a mess hall. The officers 
are quartered in fraternity houses and in other places near the 
university. 

The school year for the S. A. T. C. consists of twelve months, 
divided into four quarters. At the end of each three-month 
period one group is graduated and another group, including 
contingents from the various encampments, take its place. 
Thus the corps is kept constantly at full strength. 

The schedule of studies was prepared by Deans Hawkes and 
Pegram. It has been adopted practically without change by 
the War Department and will be used in all the colleges of 
the country where the S. A. T. C. exists. 

Schedule of Studies for Students^ Army Training Corps, 

U. S. Army, Columbia University 

Students are selected on the basis of their previous prepara- 
tion, physical fitness, and personal preference for the follow- 
ing types of service, namely. Infantry, Artillery and Machine 
Gunnery, Navy, Medicine, Engineering, and special types, 
preparation for which may be obtained in the other professional 
schools and in the graduate school. 

All students inducted into the Students' Army Training 
Corps, U. S. Army, must take the course in Issues of the 
War. 

The program of studies for students looking forward to the 
Infantry, Artillery, and Gunnery, Naval, Medical, and Engi- 
neering services are given on pages 1 5 and 18 . Students selected 
for these lines are assigned to courses of instruction as One- 
Quarter, Two-Quarter, or Three-Quarter men, according to 
the present expectation regarding the duration of their course. 

Other students not selected for these lines should, after 
being admitted to the University, consult the Dean or Director 
of the School of their choice to arrange their program of 
studies. The study of Military Administration and Army 
Paper Work is of particular importance. Instruction in these 
fields will be provided in the School of Business at an early 
date. 

13 



COLUMBIA'S 



WAR 



WORK 



INFANTRY 





One-Quarter Men 


Two-Quarter Men 


Three-Quarter Men 


First 


Issues of the War 


Issues of the War 


Issues of the War 


Quarter 


Topography and 


Enghsh 


French or German 




Map-making 


French or German 


One f History 




Hygiene and 




f Geography 


from 1 


Government 




Sanitation 




Government 




Chemistry 




Military Law 


One I 


History 


One 


Geographv 






from 


Mathematics 

Economics 

Drawing 


from ■ 


Drawing 

Accounting 

Economics 


Second 




Issues of the War 


Issues of the War 


Quarter 




Hygiene and Sanita- 


Mathematics 






tion 
Topography and 


French or German 
Elective 






Map-making 






Military Law 




Third 






Issues of the War 


Quarter 






Hygiene and Sanita- 
tion 

Topography and 
Map-making 

Military Law 



ARTILLERY AND MACHINE GUNNERY 





One-Quarter Men 


Two-Quarter Men 


Three-Quarter Aden 


First 
Quarter 


Issues of the War 
Mathematics 
Physics 

Topography and 
Map-making 


Issues of the War 
Mathematics 
Physics 

Topography and 
Map-making 


Issues of the War 

Mathematics 

Hygiene and Sanita- 
tion 

Elective, not a 
Modern Language 


Second 
Quarter 




Issues of the War 
Physics 
Mathematics 
English 


Issues of the War 
Mathematics 
Physics 
English 


Third 
Quarter 






Issues of the War 
Mechanics 
Physics 

Topography and 
Map-making 



15 




Photo by 
Hassler 



United States War Hospital No. 1— 

THE Columbia University War Hospital, now known 
as United States War Hospital No. i, was the first 
military general hospital to be put into the service 
after the declaration of war. 

On April 2nd, 1917, the Board of Trustees of Columbia 
University met and, after discussing how Columbia 
could best begin at once to do something for the Nation, 
they decided to authorize the building and equipping of 
a modern military hospital. 

The work on the hospital was begun immediately after 
the Trustees meeting and as fast as the buildings were 
put up they were used as a mobilization center for 
physicians and nurses who were going abroad. 

On October 3, 1917, the hospital was presented to the 
Government. The presentation exercises included the 
address of presentation by President Butler and the 
address of acceptance by Colonel E. R. Schreiner on 
behalf of the Secretary of War. 




of Columbia's Gifts to Our Country 

Between the addresses the national anthem was sung 
and Old Glory and the Red Cross hospital flag were raised 
on the historic flag pole, which for many years stood at 
McGowan's Pass, in Central Park, and a detachment of 
men from Squadron A, and enlisted men, stood in hol- 
low square around the staff. 

The hospital is located on Columbia Oval at Bain- 
bridge Avenue and Gun Hill Road, Bronx. On this 
high and beautiful plot are thirty-two modern buildings 
all fully equipped with every convenience that makes for 
the comfortable nursing of about 500 of our brave boys 
at one time. 

The picture at the top of this page is an inspiring sight 
to any Columbia man. It proves that while things are 
humming in behalf of our War Department at Morning- 
side Heights, such efforts are only a part of the most 
complete work that Columbia is doing to help America 
win the war. 



COLUMBIA'S WAR WORK 



NAVY 





One-Quarter Men 


Two-Quarter Men 


Three-Quarter Men 


First 
Quarter 


Issues of the War 
Astronomy and 

Navigation 
Geography and 

Meteorology 
Accounting 


Issues of the War 
Mathematics 
International Law 
Hygiene and Sanita- 
tion 


Issues of the War 
Mathematics 
Government 
French or German 


Second 
Quarter 




Issues of the War 
Astronomy and 

Navigation 
Geography 
French or German 


Issues of the War 
International Law 
Geography and 
Meteorology 
English 


Third 
Quarter 






Issues of the War 

Astronomy and 
Navigation 

Hygiene and Sanita- 
tion 

Accounting 



PRE-MEDICAL 



First and 
Second 
Quarters 



Issues of the War 

Zoology 

French or German 

Chemistrv 



Third 
Quarter 



Issues of the War 
Physics 
Chemistry 
English 



ENGINEERING 

For new students beginning abridged course of eight quarters at request of 
War Department: 



First 


Issues of the War 




Quarter 


English 
Mathematics 






Chemistry 





For former students in Engineering and pre-engineering: 
Changes in the program of studies will be duly announced, 
should consult Professor Mayer before registering. 



Such students 



18 



COLUMBIA'S WAR WORK 

Columbia Has Already Graduated Soldier Officers 

Upon examination it was found that many of the students 
were so well advanced in the subjects to be taught in this 
students' training corps as to be ready at once for a com- 
mission. Therefore, the first contingent of the Students' Army 
Training Corps left the university ten days after its induc- 
tion into the federal service instead of completing the ordi- 
nary period of three months originally contemplated by the 
War Department. 

Fifty of them went to Camp Lee, Virginia, for infantry 
training. Five were assigned to the Machine Gun School at 
Camp Hancock, Ga. These will be required to show profi- 
ciency in arithmetic, algebra and geometry. The remaining 
five were sent to Ft. Monroe, Va., for training in the heavy 
mobile artillery branch. 

The Eyes of the Students 

Columbia is looking out for the eyes of the army. The 
complexity of modern warfare, involving camouflaged ships 
and landscapes, and intricate machinery, has made correct 
vision more essential than ever. The physicial examination 
of thousands of students for the Students' Army Training 
Corps revealed poor eyesight as one of the most common 
defects. 

And, now, Columbia has moved to make better eyes. The 
university authorities have been notified by the War Depart- 
ment that the courses in optics and optometry could be 
included in the program of instruction for the Students' Army 
Training Corps. 

This means that the members of the course may now elect 
the courses in optics and optometry as outlined in the Uni- 
versity's current Announcement as a part of their officer 
training. 

As a part of the S. A. T. C, Columbia also has the Signal 
Corps of Photography and the Naval Section of the S. A. 
T. C. 

In addition, and as separate schools from those of the 
S. A. T. C. body, Columbia has the Naval Gas Engine 
School and the Radio Air Service School. 

19 




Photography going to class. Lower picture iho 
ame class in classroom. 




COLUMBIA'S WAR WORK 

The U. S. Signal Corps School of Photo- 
graphy at Columbia University 

WHILE Columbia is training men to fight she also is 
training men to record how these men did fight and 
to compile for future generations a pictorial history of 
democracy's triumph on the battlefields. 

The official name of the unit is the Signal Corps School of 
Photography. Several hundred men comprise this army unit. 
The commanding officer is Captain W. F. Moderhak, who 
has seen eighteen years of service in the regular army. 

Captain G. W. Hance is in immediate charge of the 
photographic department. Lieutenant W. R. Sherwood, 
another veteran, is adjutant. The men are all enlisted as 
regulars. 

They are quartered in Kent Hall and eat in the Commons. 
Most of the men were highly paid photographers or moving 
picture artists before they enlisted to prepare themselves for 
"snapping" Pershing's soldiers as they go over the top or 
to preserve for posterity thrilling proof of how America helped 
to defeat autocracy in the air. 

The essential purpose of the School is embodied in an order 
of the Adjutant General that the Signal Corps shall make a 
pictorial history of the war. 

The still photographic laboratory is housed in what was 
formerly a large chemical laboratory in Havemeyer Hall. 

The executive officers occupy two large rooms in Earl 
Hall. 

The cinematographic department has a suite of offices in 
the Library. 

Lieutenant Carl Gregory, one of America's most notable 
cinematographers, and formerly star camera man with the 
Metro and Fox studios, has personal direction of instruction 
in motion picture technique. A few weeks ago he took 

21 




^ 



upper picture shows camera class at School of Photo 
iiaphr. Lower piLtutc shows the Sihool of Photo 



*i«^^^^^ 



^^^Si^mAi:^^d^^mm 



m; 






I 



k 




COL, UMBIA'S WAR WORK 

"Movie" views of New York from an airplane. These pic- 
tures were pronounced by experts the most remarkable ever 
filmed in the air. 

Among the privates of the school is Otto Gilmore, the 
photographer, whose science perfected the famous "prizma" 
pictures and who, at the risk of his life, took the motion pic- 
ture photographs of the Hawaiian lava beds. Gilmore is the 
grandson of the first photographer who ever took pictures 
west of the Alleghanies. His ancestor was a student of 
Daguerre. 

It is of such timber that America's photographic corps is 
composed. All the students are professionals whose patriot- 
ism prompted them to give their knowledge to the great 
cause. The intensive training at Columbia prepares them for 
aerial observation, for the recording of charges and general 
military operations, for the photography of medical work — 
in short to be graphic historians of The Great War. The men 
will see service in the Divisional Units of the Signal Corps. 
For each division there will be a still photographer and a 
helper, and a developer and a helper. 

The still laboratory consists of four dark rooms, two de- 
velopment demonstration rooms, enlarging room, a lantern 
slide and copying room, a printing room, and a finishing 
room. Dark rooms are equipped with washing boxes, safe 
lights, fixing tanks and other apparatus, including "movie" 
machines. Much university equipment is used. 

For each army or army corps the following men will be 
apportioned. A first lieutenant (or captain), motion picture 
photographers; M. S. E. or Sergeant, first class (still pho- 
tographer); corporals or privates, first class (developers); 
privates, first class (developers' helpers). 

Instruction ranges all the way from pressing the button 
to lectures on the orthochromatic film. The final stages of 
instruction consist of practical work under actual field con- 
ditions in the trenches and at schools of fire located in nearby 
training camps. 

23 



F" 




u 



Of i 



I.' 






fi... 



.■;!.;..'■ .'i'itxmi-'.^. 




lift 



-f '. 






■ * 


.:;..,. ^ J 


■ : f' 


ki 




IL._.„.,..,. 


., ^.«*.. -. tmatia ^. .. 



COLUMBIA'S WAR WORK 



The Naval Section of the S.A.T.C. 

COLUMBIA was one of the universities of the country 
designated by the War Department to have a Naval 
Section of the Students' Army Training Corps. This 
section is composed of 300 men, and of these 100 are to be 
assigned to take advanced courses in the Engineering School 
under Dean G. B. Pegram. In general, the graduates of the 
naval section will be utilized to augment the United States 
Naval Reserve. 

A three months' course of training, as in the S. A. T. C, 
is offered. The students have the opportunity for advance- 
ment to the rating of petty officer, chief petty officer, warrant 
officer or commissioned officer. 

The commanding officer of the Columbia Naval Section is 
Commander W. T. Conn, U.S.N. Captain A. R. Alfred, 
Medical Corps, and Lieutenant Donnell, Medical Corps, also 
have been assigned to Columbia. 



25 



Ill 





j>e 





COLUMBIA'S WAR WORK 



Air Service Radio School 

ESTABLISHED last spring, this Air Service Radio 
School at Columbia, started with about 150 students. 
More than that number are now receiving instruction. 
The exact strength of the unit is not a matter of public 
knowledge, for the work of the school is largely screened from 
the rest of the university, and not until the war is over will 
its services to the nation be fully realized. This school is 
separate from the S. A. T. C. as is an additional war school 
at Columbia. 

The commandant is Major Rodman Gilder, member of a 
family famed as writers, and who left civil life to serve his 
country in war. 

The members of this school are being trained to care for 
the wireless used on airplanes and otherwise connected with 
aviation. They do not fly themselves. 

When Professor G. B. Pegram, Acting Dean of the Faculty 
of Applied Science, permitted it to be known last April that 
the school was to be opened he satisfied considerable curiosity 
concerning three planes which had just been hauled into the 
university grounds and deposited in the rear of Schermerhorn 
Hall. They were Curtiss training planes minus motors. 
Their use enables the students, who become radio squadron 
officers, to figure on the wireless apparatus. The headquar- 
ters of the school are in Earl Hall. 



27 





Jirft classes -which have been graduated from the Air I 
i:crvice Radio School. All of these men are now overseas. 





'■^^A- 



^w^« 




X y^y /-r^j 



fcs 






'enoasliatec 



,^ " 5 ?'5^'« Co» Can Be Explain 



.^ 



<^ 



IFIEI) 

;€d in 



'jS* 



tS' 



^"idei.rs Army Training 



.# 






>•<''■ .(?.«'•; 






•f''^ 



700 ENGINE SCH 
GRADS PUNISH HUNS 



Prof. Lucke, Praises Coltjirabia 

Branch of Government Naval 

Instruction Unit. 



Corps 
^t to 
Vnili- 

tCtm 
Jioo! 



3e<i 

iv. 
{a<l 



400 MORE BEING TAUGH: 



Sid 



Rigorous Course for Submarine! 
Chasers Fits Men for Im- 
mediate Service. > 



With more than 700 Naval meii,, :' 

trained at the Government Engine ' 

School on the campus, already in ac- ; 

live service on submarine chasers iiij 

'"«<Ty>r zones, and at aviation- 



COLUMBIA'S WAR WORK 

U. S. Navy Gas Engine School 

HUNDREDS of graduates have been turned out by the 
U. S. Navy Gas Engine School since its estabHshment 
at the university in 1917. The new iio-foot submarine 
chasers presented a difficult problem to the Navy. The 
main engines and auxiliary machinery are unlike any 
other type in use in the Navy and there were no men in the 
service trained to man the engine room in the boats of this 
class. 

To train men already in the service as engineers so that 
they might be able to handle the machinery in the new boats 
coming off the ways, the Department of Navigation called in 
experts from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and 
appointed Professor C. E. Lucke, '02, Ph.D., its head, to 
organize the new school and act as Civilian head. Professor 
Lucke had been very active in the work of training men in 
the Naval Service since early in the spring of 1917. He gave 
the engine work to the student volunteers who prepared be- 
tween March and May for going into the Reserve, and with 
Dr. George A. Soper, '99, Ph.D., and Professor Moss, organ- 
ized all of this volunteer work. After the middle of May, 
1917, the teaching was limited exclusively to men in the 
service. 

This school has been officially named the United States 
Navy Gas Engine School, Columbia University, and is de- 
voted to training engine men to serve on the iio-foot chasers 
from among those in the regular navy as well as those in the 
Naval Reserve. Commandants in all the naval stations of 
the country have been instructed by the Bureau of Naviga- 
tion to send their best engine-room men to the Columbia school 
for a course of four weeks, to fit them for service as chief 
engineers and first assistants on the new class of chasers. 
The first class began on September 5, 1917, and each two 
weeks a new class of sixty men is taken. Those who pass 
the tests are assigned at once to boats. 

The school is a finishing institution in the sense that the 
men all had training and experience elsewhere and were 

30 



COLUMBIA'S WAR WORK 

selected as the best in the places from which they came. 
Some time ago Professor Lucke permitted it to be known that 
the submarine chasers were being constructed with marvel- 
ous speed, and that they were being manned with higher 
engineers solely from the output at Columbia. The men 
were being turned out just about as fast as the chasers were 
finished. It may be said that the school laboratory, guarded 
day and night by armed men, is fitted out as a submarine 
chaser. The engines are placed as they would be on a ship. 
Every light on the ship is present, and the students are 
trained to respond to unexpected signals. Even the stern 
equipment finds its counterpart, operating in a tank in the 
laboratory. 

The men constitute one of the best-drilled units at the uni- 
versity. Their military proficiency was strikingly illustrated 
at the ceremonies incident to the inauguration of induction 
on October i, when, under command of Lieutenant C. C. 
Sleffel, they passed in review. 

Owing to the recent ruling by Secretary Daniels, no picture 
of the U. S. Navy Gas Engine School at Columbia University 
can be shown for the duration of war. 



COLUMBIA'S 



WAR 



WORK 



Columbia is Being Maintained Intact 

ylLL of the departments of the university are being conducted 
r\ in the usual way, though the attendance is naturally 
smaller. Exact figures as to enrollment are yet un- 
obtainable, but attendance seems to have dwindled in almost 
every department except the College of Physicians and Surgeons. 

The Law School has about fifty regular students. Courses 
in international and military law are given to the members 
of the Students' Army Training Corps. 

The entering class of the School of Journalism is composed 
principally of women. Its size is on the whole gratifying. 

Several thousand are registered in the Department of Ex- 
tension Teaching. 

Columbia College has about one-third of its normal enroll- 
ment of i,ooo. 

Courses in all departments are being given in substantially 
the same number as before, though heavy drafts have been 
made on the teaching force. 

In Extension many new courses are being offered. Many of 
these are intended to fit students for various kinds of war 
work. 

War Losses 

Huber William Hurt of McKendree College has compiled a 
list of the comparative war losses of various universities. 
The Cornell Alumni News reprints the figures as follows: 



Loss % Loss 

1 Harvard 2,537 4°-2 

2 Pennsylvania 2,422 26.8 

3 Columbia 2,214 16.3 

4 Michigan .. 1,801 24.8 

5 Nebraska i)S37 30-S 

6 Northwestern 1,369 25.4 

7 Wisconsin 1,178 15.9 

8 Yale 1,174 35-5 

9 Illinois 1,172 17.9 

10 Chicago 1,166 12.7 

11 Ohio 1,034 17.9 

12 Cornell 1,020 16.6 

13 Missouri 792 20.3 

14 Texas 713 13.2 

15 Princeton 683 43.9 

16 Minnesota 647 16.3 



Loss %Loss 

17 Syracuse 640 15.8 

18 Kansas 568 17.2 

19 California 496 5.2 

20 Stanford. 456 22.6 

21 Indiana 435 15.2 

22 Virginia 351 14.6 

23 Iowa 270 8.1 

24 Pittsburgh 251 7.6 

25 Johns Hopkins. . . . 242 9.5 

26 Washington Univer- 

sity 119 8.8 

27 Tulane 60 2.4 

28 Western Reserve, . . 46 2.2 

29 Cincinnati (gain). . 38 1.2 

30 New York Univer- 

sity (gain) 154 2.3 



32 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 




Hollinger C 
pH8.5 



MaS«S^.°'iO'^^ss 



oj209uWe 



Hollinger Corp. 
pH8.5 



